THE SAFFRON LANE NEIGHBOURHOOD COUNCIL

Registered charity 508230 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SAFFRON RESOURCE CENTRE

We exist to provide a range of services to support local residents, including legal and welfare rights advice and advocacy, services for young people with special needs, daycare and activities programmes for the elderly, a local newsletter, an environmental project, education advice and advocacy, mobility trike hire, and signposting to nine partner organisations who use our facilities.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£357k
Latest spending
£299k
Registered
1979
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £1,040 for the year, with total funds increasing slightly to £1,234,130. The trustees have set reserves at £158,000 to reflect six months of income generated in 2020, while also designating £600,000 for the Saffron Heath Phase 2 housing project and £120,000 for wind-down costs. The financial review notes that the financial situation remains very difficult for the Third Sector, but the charity owns a large asset expected to secure stability through regular income over the next 125 years.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months of income generated in 2020 (held: £158k)
the trustees decided that the six month reserves needed to reflext income generated in 2020 and reserves now set at £158,000. — page 15
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered titlein England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Leicester City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£357k£299k
31/03/2024£334k£310k
31/03/2023£292k£256k
31/03/2022£338k£231k
31/03/2021£371k£292k

Common questions

Is THE SAFFRON LANE NEIGHBOURHOOD COUNCIL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £1,040 for the year, with total funds increasing slightly to £1,234,130. The trustees have set reserves at £158,000 to reflect six months of income generated in 2020, while also designating £600,000 for the Saffron Heath Phase 2 housing project and £120,000 for wind-down costs. The financial review notes that the financial situation remains very difficult for the Third Sector, but the charity owns a large asset expected to secure stability through regular income over the next 125 years. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund20/10/2022£439kBuilding Back Better Through Challenging Loneliness
UK government26/08/2020£20kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund22/06/2016£27k"Heritage on the Heath"
The National Lottery Community Fund14/02/2007£191kSaffcare Active Lifestyle Centre
The National Lottery Community Fund06/01/2006£150kSaffron Allotment Project
The National Lottery Community Fund14/01/2005£4kSet up website
The National Lottery Community Fund02/11/2004£71kTo set up a disability/welfare rights advice centre in the Saffron area.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. MARK'S, LACHE-CUM-SALTNEY.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE SAFFRON LANE NEIGHBOURHOOD COUNCIL£357k0withinno doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. MARK'S, LACHE-CUM-SALTNEY FY2024£293k0unclearno doubt
SWINDON AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU FY2025£961k0unclearno doubt
THE HARBORNE PARISH LANDS CHARITY FY2025£2.0m£70,001 - £80,0002aboveno doubt
TESTLANDS FY2024£1.7m0unclearno doubt
VAUXHALL NEIGHBOURHOOD COUNCIL LIMITED FY2025£362k0unclearno doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.